Elaborate attack in Egypt's Sinai kills 2 policemen, judge
An elaborate militant attack, involving a suicide car bombing and claimed by Islamic State group, targeted a hotel in the restive north of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, killing two policemen and a judge and wounding 12, the military said.
The statement said troops and policemen guarding the Swiss Inn hotel in the coastal city of El-Arish opened fire on an explosives-laden car as it approached the building, blowing it up before it reached the hotel. In the meantime, two militants slipped inside the hotel. One detonated an explosives vest in the hotel's kitchen, while the second opened fire in a hotel room.
The military said all militants involved in the attack were killed, but gave no other details.
The Sinai branch of the extremist Islamic State group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted by sympathizers on social media accounts. It said the attack was carried out by two militants: the suicide car bomber and a gunman, who is alleged to have opened fire inside the hotel before blowing himself up.
